Seal.



W. T. PEYTON.

V SEAL. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 15, 1914.

Patented Mar. 23, 1915.

WILLIAM 'r. PEYTON, or roar WORTH, TEXAS.

SEAL.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patnted 3131323 1915:.

Application filed June 15, 191%. Serial No. 845,052. v

:and other structures, and the object is to provide seals which cannotbe released without destruction or mutilation so that the tampering withthe seals may be readily detected. One object is to provide acasingwhich will effectually seal the locking devices from any interferencefrom without and which will efi'ectually prevent picking by anyinstrument.

Other objects and advantages Wlll be fully explained in the followingdescription and the invention will be -more. particularly pointed out inthe claims.

Reference is had 'to the accompanying drawings which form a part of thisapplication. 1

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of the casing and plunger and sideview of the attaching bail. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the locking spring.Fig. 3 is a plan viewof the sealing head. the attaching bail beingomitted. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section of the plunger and a side viewof the attaching bail. illustrating the manner of opening the bail to beplaced on a car door or other object. Fig. 5 is a longitudinal sectionof the casing and plunger, illustrating the means for retaining theplunger partly within the casing without sealing. Fig. 6 is across-section of a casing and a plunger, made square in cross-section.being a Variation from the cylindrical forms previously shown.

Similar characters of reference are used.

bent to an oval or elliptical form. is mount ed partly within the groove2 and partly without the groove. When the plunger 3 is forced down inthe barrel, the conical shaped end of the plunger will enter the" lockand spread the same until the lock or portions of the lock 7 willfallback into the groove 4.. The lock 7 will thus occupy portions of thegroove in the barrel and por- .tions of the groove in the-plunger andlock the barrel and the plunger together- The attaching bail 5 has shortlugs 10 which occupy recesses in the plunger 3 when the device issealed. One end of the bail 5 may be permanently attached to the plungerand the other end free. as shown in Fig. 4.

Fig.- 1. illustrates the device sealed and Fig. 4 illustrates the,relative positions of the bail and the plunger before the deviceissealed. The plunger head 6 has slots 9 for the bail 5 and the flange 11on the periphery of'the plunger head depends far enough to engage theoutside of the end of the barrel.

This flangell will prevent any tampering with the interior of the seal.'In order to attach the plunger and the barrel together without sealingthe same. a small recess mav be made in the periphery of the plunger anda small protuberance 12 on the interior'of the barrel which will occupythe recess in the plunger. In this manner the barrel and the plunger maybe held together. as shown inFig. 5. lVhen the device is to be sealed.the prot berance 12 can be forced out of and beyond the recess in theplunger. The ends of the attaching bail 5 must be pressed into the slotsor grooves 9 before the plunger is forced down in the barrel for sealingpurposes. The bail 5 can be caught on a staple or hasp or other lockingdevice of a car door and then the ends pressed into the grooves 9 andforced down in the barrel 1 with the plungerB and when the cone- TEDemee shaped end passes into the spring lock 7. the lock will spread todrop into the groove 4 of the plunger.

Instead of making the sealing devices cylindrical. they may be made squae in crosssection, as shown in Fig. 6. or the plunger and barrel ma bemade in any other suitable des gn. The lock 7 must be of such designthat parts of it will occupy the groove in the plunger and other artsoccupy the groove in the barrel. When the seal is to be broken, the wire5 may be cut. The barrel may be made of glass or destr ctible materialwhich can be broken.

What I claim. is. I

1. A seal comprising a barrel having a groove in the inner wall thereof,a plunger having a groove therein adapted to register with the groove insaid barrel, a spring locking member having a part thereof occupying thegroove in said barrel and the other part occupying the groove in saidplunger, an attaching member detachable from said plunger when theplunger is out of the barrel but locked thereto by said barrel when theplunger is thrust into the barrel, and a flanged head on said plungerinclosing the end of said barrel and having provision for the passage ofsaid attaching member.

2. A seal comprising a barrel having a groove in the inner wall near thebottom thereof, a plunger having a groove in the lower or inner endadapted to register with the groove in said barrel, a spring lockingmember standing partly in the groove 'in said barrel and partly in thepath of said plunger before the plunger is thrust into the barrel andadapted to occupy in part the groove in said plunger when the plunger isthrust into the barrel, an attaching member engaging said plunger anddetachable therefrom before the plunger is thrust in said barrel butlocked to the plunger by said barrel when the plunger is thrust into thebarrel, and a flanged head on said plunger adapted to engage the openend of said barrel when the plunger is locked in said barrel.

3. A seal comprising a barrel having one end closed and a groove in theinner wall locked thereto by the barrel after the plunger is thrust tothe bottom of the barrel, and means for retaining saidplunger partlywithin said barrel prior to the locking of the plunger in the barrel.

4. A seal having a barrel provided with a groove in the lower partthereof, said barrel being closed at one end, a plunger having agroovetherein adapted to register with the groove in said barrel andhaving a flanged head inclosing the other end of said barrel, andaspring locking member occupying a part of the groove in said barrel anda part of the locking member occupying a part of the groove in saidplunger. In testimony whereof, I set my hand in the presence of twowitnesses, this 29th day of May, 1914:.

l VILLIAM T. PEYTON. WVitnesses c A. L. JACKSON, 1 J. W. STETs.

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Washington, D. G.

